New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-23
,NEwyoRK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, AUGUST D, 1887

Es OLODh hONCOA ~f
habit Of lawlessness, naturally found 1t easy
10 learn crooked moral ideas, and from being
a protection TO the community they became
a scourgc Now Harrison County Is IN the
grip of its former roscuers, and the people
feel that their last state is worse than their
first.
1t is not particularly crcditable to the in
telligence Of any community that 1T should
need rough practical experiment 10 teach IL
the most fundamental Of sociological truths.
/ Ii has been so often and so clearly shown that
! lawlessness Il never safe recourse under no
matter what proyocaton that the fact should
/ by this time be pretty well understood. The
simple truth Is that the state OF Harrison
County has for several years been not far re-
moved from state Of anarchy. The will and
voice of the people hayc constitutional means
/ OF expression, and no other means. When
| ever minority pretend to speak for the
whole, outside Of the constitutional modes OF
collecting the aggregate judgment, they are
usnrpers and lawbrcakers. Such lawless
minority appears TO have governed Harrison
| County for the past three years, and it is no
wonder that the results are disagrceable
/ There Is no escape for Harrison County but
/ to return TO the constitution and the law,
and il 1t can get back without such cOnvul-
sions as the Bald KnObbers have passed
through it will be fortunate. If then it re-
members that all responsibility for corrupt
government rests upon the people Them
selves, since it would never be possible II
they did their full duty las citizens, perhaps
they may avoid similar pcrils in the future.
"The Boston HERALD chief OF the Mugwump
organs, cannot find anything better TO say Of the
Administration than that ut has been virtuous
in spots" But alas, 1t has shown that 1t can
change them.
| The Irish may perhaps go to KilIna inham, but
the Tories will certainly go to Salt River.
How funny it would seem to have a really
! respectable Board Of Aldermen elected this fall.
Nothing would astonish New-Yorl more than the
extinction OF boodlers 1t would require long
while for the city to get used to such strange
situation.
| Experiments by the Health Board have pro-
| duced cheap and effective disinfectant to be
used In subway excavations. The Board offers to
furnish it at cost and to give instructions for
Its Now the question arises, can those In
charge OF the excavations be compelled to use III
There can be no question OF the desirabilty OF
destroying the offensive doors that offend the
nostrils whenever city streets are opened. The
question OF disinfection should not be left TO the
caprice Of contractors
II the Mugwumps are glad they voted for
Cleveland, why do they declare him falure2
DO they consider the production OF failure
| thing TO be proud of?
1t Is pretty clever rogue who can contrive to
owe $l6,OOO,OOO before he is thirty
| Secretary Bayard may fifty lie termed a station
nry diplomatist. lie has been for two years
: corresponding with Great Britain upon the fish
cries question, and the settlement Of the affair
is not advanced single inch beyond the point
at which he began
party that would deliberately set TO work
| TO steal United States Senator might be cx
pccted 10 bankrupt the State Treasury. The
Democrats OF Indiana have distinguished them
selves by doing both OF these things AMI now
the Governor and State officials want to know
how they going to get their pay. 1t is
pity that the question could not be submitted
10 vote OF the people Of the Sxate. In that
event there would be on indefinite postpone
ment of the payment of their salaries
|
| 1t must have been tho malaria that affected
the kentucky idea"
The Prince Of Wales has met Doctor Chauncey
| NJ Depew. Too many such honors, albeit the
Prince is used to the society OF gifted men, are
liable to turn His Royal IL zhness's head.
Just as the news comes that Iipsd the London
murderer, made full confession before his
| Dali NJ ,oD ,b ito
sensational disclosure OF private conversation
with Llpski's counsel, which was made known
| here by cable. This il was claimed, showed that
Justice Stephen. who presided Mt the trial, had
| been "converted' TO belief In LIpskis inno
cence and was "aghast" at the thought Of having
him hanged. Mr. Stead wavercd between the
injunction Of secrecy placed upon him by the
lawyer and his belief that, II the facts were
published they would prevent the death Of an
innocent man, and decided to publish the facts
In spite Of the lawyers declaration that TO do
so would ruin him. What the facts" were which
converted Justice Stephen is not stated They
were not new, but were passed at the trial
without comment and had not then been built
into the new theory which another person present,
by the way, promptly pronounced ridiculous
Lpsu's confession certainly makes il So Per-
haps the chief lesson of the incident is In its
warning against morbid sympathy with muir
dercrs. There is II halo OF innocence about
him." said his lawyer, (which seems TO touch
all his surroundings. Even the gaoers do not
believe In his guilt Under these circumstances,
1t was unldnd Of Lipsld to make confession.
Poverty says DR.. McClynn. ais dis ~ e.
Perhaps. but il the patient treat it with r. po-
dermic injections of honesty and steady applica.
tons Of industry, 1t can be overcome.
There are lots OF barbs on the political wires
these days. The people put them there
The shooting Of William Corcoran, the rufian